ng in
her best services, to bring light into the dense darkness of the very
community whose doors were closed against her!

In connection with this incident of narrow prejudice read these words
from Dr. Haygood's "Pleas for Progress." "In all truth and common sense
there is no reason for discounting in any respect a white man or woman
simply for teaching negroes. It is absurd. I believe it is sinful."
These earnest words were spoken by the eloquent divine to his Southern
brethren, August 2, 1883, six long years ago. If they only carried the
conviction of the people to whom he appealed! How strangely they sound,
standing so close to this letter refusing board to a young lady because
she is teaching these very negroes! "How long, O Lord, how long?"

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The semi-annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Association met
in the Beneficent Congregational Church, or "Old Round Top," as the
street car conductor called it, Providence, April 3d. The weather was
extremely unfavorable, as New England weather has been lately, as a
rule, but there was a good attendance and deep interest. All the
missionary societies of the Congregational churches which do work in
America were represented. The field work of the Woman's Association has
passed into the control of the national societies. The future looks very
bright for its increasing usefulness.

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And now Pleasant Hill, Tenn., rejoices in the sweet music of one of the
Smith organs. Mr. S.D. Smith is making many schools happy and adding
greatly to their efficiency by his generous gifts of organs.

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WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

BLACK SAINTS AND WHITE.

Do colored folks retain their complexion when they go to heaven? This is
a question of some importance to the members of the Diocesan Convention
of the Protestant Episcopal churches of Charleston, S.C. Not long ago
the Convention appointed a special committee to consider and report upon
the subject of the admission of negro clergymen and laymen as members of
that body. Their action was taken with the view of bringing the
Charleston churches, if possible, into harmony with the other Episcopal
congregations of the State. In 1887, the former had seceded in
consequence of the adoption of a resolution which the Charleston
brethren regarded as a virtual obliteration of the color-line.

Thursday, the report of the com